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ACESM - Implementing the Application Control Engine Service Module

Course outline

4 days
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Duration

4 days

Course Description

ACESM is a 4-day, instructor-led, lecture/lab course that teaches you how to design, deploy and optimize intelligent network services using the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) Service Module for Catalyst 6500 switches.

This course covers all of the key features of the ACE 2.0 software, including resource virtualization and management, server load balancing (Layer 2-4 and Layer 7), SSL termination and offload, and security features like application-layer inspection and fixups.

Who should attend

This course is intended for:

  • Cisco Channel Partners
  • Resellers
  • Employees
  • Customers

Prerequisites

You will gain the most from this course if you have a basic understanding of the following topics:

  • TCP/IP protocol
  • HTTP and SSL protocols
  • N-Tier application architecture
  • Server load-balancing

Course Objectives

  • Describe IP application delivery with the ACE module
  • Describe the structure and function of the Modular Policy CLI statements used to configure ACE features
  • Describe the capabilities the ACE module used to load balance IP-based applications
  • Identify the layer-7 processing options used to provide advanced application networking
  • Create new contexts and resourse classes
  • Create class maps and serverfarms
  • Configure an ACE context load balance traffic flows
  • Configure an ACE context to monitor real servers
  • Implement fixups and inspection
  • Describe the ACE features that provide IP application security
  • Implement SSL termination
  • Configure network address translations
  • Describe the high availability features of the ACE module
  • Configure an ACE context to perform a variety of functions in an integrated environment
  • Troubleshoot common SLB configuration errors

Course Outline

Data Center Application Services Overview

  • IP-Based Data Center Applications
  • IP Application Review
  • Web Technology Overview
  • Data Center Application Architecture
  • Multi-Tier Applications
  • Intra-Datacenter Redundancy
  • Multi-Datacenter Redundancy
  • Application Delivery Products
  • Deploying the ACE Appliance and Service Module
  • Connecting ACE to the Network
  • Network Topologies
  • ACE 4710 Installation Procedure
  • ACE Appliance GUI
  • Virtualization
  • Resource Management
  • Authorizing Management Users
  • Configuring Interfaces
  • What You Need
  • Virtualization and Resource Management Design

Designing Server Load Balancing Solutions

  • Modular Policy CLI
  • Class Maps
  • Policy Maps
  • Applying Policy Maps
  • Managing the ACE Appliance and Service Module
  • Permitting Management Traffic
  • SNMP Manageability
  • Application Networking Manager
  • Security Features
  • IP Access Control Lists
  • ACL Object Groups
  • TCP/IP Fragmentation/Reassembly
  • TCP/IP Normalization
  • SYN Cookies
  • Network Address Translation
  • Layer 4 Load Balancing
  • Load-Balancing Concepts
  • Load-Balancing Algorithms
  • Configuring Layer 4 Load Balancing
  • Traffic Rate Limiting
  • What You Need
  • Server Load-Balancing Design Considerations
  • Health Monitoring
  • Health Monitoring Overview
  • Active Health Probes
  • HTTP Error Code Monitoring
  • Using TCL Scripting
  • Route Health Injection
  • Backup Servers/Server Farms
  • What You Need
  • Health Monitoring Design Considerations
  • Layer 7 Protocol Processing
  • Configuring HTTP Layer 7 Load Balancing
  • Persistent and Pipelined HTTP Extensions
  • Server Reuse
  • HTTP Modifications
  • Session Persistence
  • Protocol Inspection
  • HTTP Inspection
  • FTP Protocol Processing
  • RDP Protocol Processing
  • Radius Protocol Processing
  • RTSP Protocol Processing
  • SIP Protocol Processing
  • Generic Protocol Parsing
  • Other Inspected Protocols
  • What You Need
  • Layer 7 Design Considerations
  • Processing Secure Connections
  • Digital Encryption Technologies
  • SSL Service Options
  • Configuring a Public Key Infrastructure
  • Configuring SSL Proxy Services
  • SSL Session Reuse Functional Overview
  • SSL Queue Delay Functional Overview
  • SSL Client Authentication Functional Overview
  • What You Need
  • SSL Design Considerations
  • Migrating From CSS and CSM
  • Overview of CSS and CSM
  • Migrating CSS Configurations
  • Migrating CSM Configurations

Designing Web Application Acceleration Solutions

  • Web Application Acceleration Overview
  • Web Performance Factors
  • Web Acceleration Architecture
  • Deploying Application Acceleration and Optimization
  • FlashForward
  • Delta Optimization
  • Compression Overview
  • Configuring Compression
  • What You Need
  • Web Acceleration Design Considerations

Optimizing the DCAS Solution

  • High Availability
  • Redundancy
  • Object Tracking
  • Failover
  • State Replication
  • Fault-Tolerance Configuration
  • Designing Application Services
  • Analyzing Network Requirements
  • Sizing Guidelines
  • Designing Virtualization
  • Designing Server Load Balancing Services
  • Designing Application Security Services
  • Designing Web Acceleration Services
  • Designing Site-to-Site Load Balancing
  • Building an Application Services Demo

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.